starter strip

We bought a house that has a new roof on it, but we had to have eavestroughing put on the house. the man doing it said we have no starter strip on the roofing and the new roof won't last 10 years because of it. the new shingles are 35 years shingles. is this true?

starter strip

the gables does have shingles put upside down along the edge. The length of the roof has an ice shield put down, but no starter strip on top of the ice shield before the shingles. There is an over hang of about 1-2 ins on all the roof.

starter strip

I run into a true case of no Starter Course of shingles on at least 1-2 homes per year, even including the older method of utilizing flipped upside down 3-tabs for that purpose.

If in fact there is a course of upside down 3-tabs used as a starter course, then the new roof only has to be spaced properly during it's initial alignment, so as to not align vertically, gap from the butt ends of the new shingles on top of the butt end gaps of the upside down 3-tab shingles.